Pretty quiet on here! Not too many regulars posting updates anymore.

Had a big boil yesterday about 9500 gallons of sap ended up with around 190-200 gals of amber Rich still. We may have touched on dark Amber for a few barrels but nothing dark robust. God I hate this new system there is no way to accurately represent dark Amber without kicking it into the b category which there's nothing robust about Dark amber. It's amber...just slightly darker!!! I guess color is more important than flavor, until the last barrel is made then it's like oh my God that's end of season syrup. Yeah? Well color is there, oh but that didn't matter with my barrel of dark Amber you graded dark robust!!